The latest Swiss media hit piece on me is out, and while it’s definitely slanted in exactly the way you’d expect, it’s considerably more balanced than the previous one. Which is nice, for a change.
The Wall Street Journal once called Vox Day “the most despised man in science fiction”. Academics describe him as a “white supremacist”. He rejects this label and sees himself as a Christian nationalist....
It’s always interesting to see how the various journalists slant their pieces. For example, I don’t call Ben Shapiro cancer because he is pro-Israel, but because he openly calls for the US military invasion of Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, and Pakistan in order to establish an empire in the Middle East, a policy which is obviously not in the American national interest or the interests of the people of those nations. And, of course, no link is provided because doing so would reveal that the journalist has misrepresented an explicit observation with his own implicit assumption. But it is fantastic that he describes Shapiro as a “publicist”; he certainly got that one right even if I prefer the term “manufactured shill”.
He also left out the reason that I’m much more comfortable with black culture than most people in Switzerland: I’m a former NCAA D1 sprinter and may well be the only individual in the entire country who has ever been to a black fraternity party. I didn’t learn the Electric Slide at Delta Upsilon…
And speaking of implicit assumptions, it is downright damning that the journalist would assume openly opposing the literal rule of Satan is reasonably characterized as “anti-semitism”. He actually describes the idea that there are “wicked servants of the true inhuman evils” as “anti-semitic”. That’s a real “wait, did he really just write that” moment that says even more about his beliefs than it does about mine. Now, my position is obviously nonsensical from the atheist perspective, but the particular way he attempted to make sense of it is extremely telling.
It’s also telling that my position on the war in Ukraine is entirely absent in this piece despite our discussion of it. Suddenly the Swiss media doesn’t want to talk about that, of course. I can only assume that in the next one, they won’t want to talk about how I was opposing the rule of satanic globalists before it was considered the right and proper thing to do.
The use of SimilarWeb to estimate the traffic was also interesting, since I gave him the actual numbers for the various sites. The SimilarWeb estimate isn’t even close to accurate; Sigma Game alone gets nearly that many views.
But whatever. I think it’s fascinating to read this little hit piece in the light of the recently published National Security Strategy, because it’s a confirmation of the way in which the globalists are reeling in disarray and struggling to accept the undeniable reality that the pendulum is no longer swinging in their favor and that the world has collectively rejected their vision for the future.
I did take the trouble to email the journalist one correction. It’s simply not true that the Puppies only “attempted to hijack the Hugo Award”. We absolutely nuked that thing, so much so that 11 votes is now enough to garner a Hugo nomination. That’s not merely a crater, that’s a deep and massive one.
The one thing that was a little odd is that for all the talk about writing and publishing and science fiction, the article doesn’t mention a single one of my 17 books. This is especially strange in light of the fact that I had just published a new literary anthology prior to the interview that has been very well received.
Anyhow, I tend to doubt the idea that my most lasting and memorable contribution to the knowledge of Man will be the construction of the socio-sexual hierarchy. I tend to think these three demolitions of centuries-old Enlightenment “truths” will take precedence in the long run:
- The labor mobility criticism of free trade
- The mathematical impossibility of the theory of evolution by natural selection
- The proof that religion is not the cause of war
Of course, in the event I happen have to correctly identified the precise year of the dissolution of the USA nearly 30 years prior, or even to come within three years on either side, that will almost certainly prove to be the primary item of interest, no matter what else I manage to accomplish in the 40 or so years that remain to me.
